It is not going to end well for Johnny Manziel

I don't think a narcissistic character would get on too well behind bars.

 

I think the idea is that it would be the safest place for him, which says a whole lot about addiction.

 

I didn't say it was the perfect place.

I said best.

 

You do realize there is a difference between spending a couple of months in jail and go going to prison right?

 

At some point you can't teach an old dog new tricks. By the time most (not all but most) felons get sent to prison for 5-plus years, they know nothing other than doing whatever it takes to get by. Are prisons supposed to serve as high schools for 20-something-year-old guys? In NJ, it is a requirement to go to GED classes if you are in state prison and have not graduated from high school. But at that point, what is a dude who has been slinging for 10+ years going to do? Think he will get out and try to enroll in community college or maybe find a way to get quicker, easier money?

 

Long odds beat no odds.

 

It's one thing to enable. But there's ample evidence that Paul Manziel was his son's drinking buddy (and the other way around) back to his teen years. And this is the same guy who promised his 15-year-old son a Beamer IF he's stop drinking. Paul Manziel isn't just part of the problem. He may be the problem and any lamentations he's crying right now are disingenuous best.

 

How's it disingenuous? He's being completely honest about what Johnny is like now.

Presumably he knows the role he played. I don't think I've ever heard him be disingenuous about it, i.e. say "I tried to keep him on the straight and narrow, but he done gone off on his own."

 

It's disingenuous to publicly moan about his son's plight in life when he was one of the primary causes. He forfeited that right when he started buying his own son double Crowns when he was 18.

 

No he didn't. He knows what's up.

 

I'm sure his son would agree that "he may be the problem."

 

It's not inconsistent or disingenuous in the least to acknowledge culpability in someone's downfall and still feel empathy for that person. It's human.